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when where screw top bottles started - 2/17/2007 11:09:59 AM    amywalker2007   Posts: 21 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline we have a large botttle that says 1861 on the bottom and it is a screwtop. Can anyone tell us anything Post #: 1

RE: when where screw top bottles started - 2/17/2007 11:43:40 AM    Jim Posts: 2268 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: offline I believe that the screw cap for bottles was invented around 1870, although it did not become popular until around the 1920s. Mason jars had screw-on lids earlier than bottles did. The very early screw cap bottles were mold-blown and had a rough, ground lip. After the machine-made bottles arrived, the screw cap became more common and eventually replaced the old cork-type tops on most types of bottles. The 1861 on the base of your bottle could be a lot of things. Possibly a mold number. I hope this helps. ~Jim < Message edited by Jim -- 2/17/2007 11:50:43 AM > _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. (in reply to amywalker2007) Post #: 2

RE: when where screw top bottles started - 2/17/2007 11:43:04 PM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline External threads on fruit jars was being experminted with in the early 1850s. The internal thread stopper for bottles was first patent in the US by S.A. Whitney. External theards on bottles have been expermented with since the 1850s but the first patents for bottles were issued in the 1870s just like Jim said. They really caught on in the 1930s. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to Jim) Post #: 3

RE: when where screw top bottles started - 2/23/2007 10:20:56 AM    marjorie040 Posts: 361 Joined: 12/3/2006 Status: offline Thanks Amy...your request brought more information that I didn't know...now I am curious about your bottle. Can you send a picture? Marjorie (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 4

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